Given name: Anna Family name: Lanota

  • NO
  • Female
  • Anna
  • Lanota
  • Rottenberg
  • Antonina Krawczyk
  • 1915
  • Łódź
  • Yes
  • From Warsaw
  • suburban Warsaw
  • Jewish
  • higher
  • on surface , in an apartment
  • lack

  • Her parents lived in Lodz and were quite well-off; she completed a Jewish junior high school in Lodz; in 1937 psychology at Warsaw University, she worked in a private children care clinic in Srodborowo. From 1932 she was connected with the Communist party. 6 September 1939 she left Warsaw, in Kowel she worked in an orphanage; after a year she went to Lwow, she worked in a disabled children centre; after Germans had entered Lwow she left to Warsaw. Her parents and brothers were in the ghetto, she visited them and temporarily lived in the ghetto, because on the 'Aryan side' she was active in the underground and when there was any leak it was best to hide for some time in the ghetto. For a few months in 1942 she even worked there in an orphanage; the deportation action started when she was in the ghetto. In mid-August in 1942 she crosses to the 'Aryan side', she is active in the underground, prints the 'Glos Warszawy'. She and her friend keep up themselves baking a cheesecake. In Spring and summer 1943 she was in the partisans near Wyszkow. She took part in the Warsaw Uprising.

  • Ghetto Uprising, Warsaw Uprising, in the Ghetto, deportation
  • Germans operations, Poles operations, work
  • children, Polish underground movement , contacts with other Jews
  • 132-141